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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Cora and William try to explain to Bert?
(a) That Bert must go back north for school.
(b) His behavior may end tragically for him and the rest of his family.
(c) Billie is too young to live with Bert.
(d) Sallie has to leave to go to school.

2. What does Sallie want to become?
(a) A business woman.
(b) A teacher.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A maid.

3. What do Cora and Bert begin to do, after he tells her this news?
(a) They begin to argue again.
(b) They begin to cry.
(c) They begin to understand one another.
(d) They hug.

4. What comment does little Billy make?
(a) He wishes he was white.
(b) He wants to see his Uncle Bert.
(c) He wants to move in with Bert.
(d) He knows the Colonel is his grandpa.

5. Of what does Cora stop and remind the Colonel?
(a) The Colonel could go to jail.
(b) Bert is their son.
(c) Bert is a man.
(d) Bert is strong.

6. How has Bert experienced more equal treatment in the big cities?
(a) He has traveled on business out of town.
(b) He has gone to school out of town.
(c) He has vacationed out of town.
(d) He has run away out of town.

7. What do Cora and William worry about Bert's place in society?
(a) He knows his place.
(b) He will never know his place.
(c) He cannot find his place.
(d) He has no place.

8. He knows he is neither black nor white, and he looks just like who?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) Cora.
(c) All other white men.
(d) Norwood.

9. What tale does Bert tell Cora and William?
(a) The same tale of the radio tubes that Higgins told the Colonel, and he is very sorry.
(b) A different tale from what Higgins had told the Colonel.
(c) A similar tale to what Higgins had told the Colonel.
(d) The same tale of the radio tubes that Higgins told the Colonel earlier.

10. What does Cora tell Bert he needs to do, regarding his behavior?
(a) He needs to stand strong.
(b) He needs to stay positive.
(c) He needs to tone it down.
(d) He needs to be himself.

11. What do Cora and William discuss, regarding Bert?
(a) How smart he is.
(b) His headstrong ways.
(c) How he should move back north.
(d) How he looks like his father.

12. What else do the two men discuss?
(a) Cora.
(b) Norwood's children.
(c) Politics.
(d) The weather.

13. For what does the guest chide the Colonel?
(a) For not remarrying a white woman.
(b) For having a black mistress.
(c) For not marrying Cora.
(d) For keeping a black mistress in his home like a wife.

14. How does Bert react to their explanation?
(a) He resents them for their concerns.
(b) He dismisses their concerns.
(c) He understands their concerns.
(d) He agrees to move north.

15. What does Cora tell Bert the Colonel wants to do to him?
(a) Beat.
(b) Yell.
(c) Speak.
(d) Throw him out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bert try to do regarding his position?

2. What is Bert telling everyone?

3. What does this guest relate to the Colonel?

4. When and where does the play begin?

5. What happens from the accident on, between the Colonel and Bert?

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